Speaker 1: All right, emergency episode of the Mad Monday podcast. This
Speaker 1: is coming out on a Wednesday afternoon. Look, if you
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast, you're probably aware of the Hello
Speaker 1: Sport podcast.
Speaker 2: You probably listened to their latest episode.
Speaker 1: But they have come up with a pitch to reward
Speaker 1: the efforts of our very own Mitch Barnette and missing
Speaker 1: the birth of his second child to go over there
Speaker 1: and be in State of Origin camp. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to see if we could lend a hand with that.
Speaker 1: So on the Agenda podcast earlier this morning, we had
Speaker 1: a chat to Tommy Birmingham from the hellow Sport podcast.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, I know who's going to
Speaker 1: enjoy this. It's the Mad Monday audience. So without any
Speaker 1: further ado, here's our chat from the Agenda podcast with
Speaker 1: Tom Birmingham from Hellowsport. Well, it's a great pleasure to
Speaker 1: welcome our dear friend from across the ditch from the
Speaker 1: hellow Sport podcast, Tom Birmingham, get a Tom Hay getting
Speaker 1: on this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Mate, very very well, thanks for having us. How are
Speaker 3: you guys doing, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 1: Doing very very well. Thanks mate, State of Origin tonight.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're a proud new South Welshman over there, and
Speaker 1: I see that it's caught your eye that our beloved
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnett has actually missed the birth of his second son.
Speaker 1: Just the whole pads at training across the ditch. Let's
Speaker 1: call you right, didn't it?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely did. We're calling him mana much from across
Speaker 3: the Dutch. Yeah. And also just we are new South Welshman,
Speaker 3: but myself and Eddie who's my cost on the show,
Speaker 3: both half key we so I just feel like mentioning
Speaker 3: that off the top, maybe just to ingratiate ourselves further
Speaker 3: with your audience. Look, it was made apparent to us
Speaker 3: after Mitch got selected in the second game that he
Speaker 3: missed the birth of his child, and we were like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's I mean, obviously that's incredible. But then as the
Speaker 3: story developed, it was like he actually a kid been
Speaker 3: born for a couple of weeks. He missed the birth
Speaker 3: of his second child to literally come and train with
Speaker 3: the boys, not on game day, not, I think, man,
Speaker 3: just to hold pads, run through some plays and I
Speaker 3: just think that's New South Wales spirit through and through. Well.
Speaker 1: I've thought this from the moment that he got that
Speaker 1: he got named into the squad. I was like, Mitch
Speaker 1: bhaniit as a state of origin player. You know, he's
Speaker 1: got all of the things. I think he's raised on
Speaker 1: a dairy farm out in rural New South Wales. I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you where. And I was like, that is
Speaker 1: the kind of man that you need in your food pack.
Speaker 1: And I think you and Edie came up with a
Speaker 1: plan to reward him in some way for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Look, I mean we sort of we
Speaker 3: were just trying to think about how we could give
Speaker 3: back to a man who's, you know, given everything to
Speaker 3: the state. Now, you could argue that if you've seen
Speaker 3: one childbirth, you've seen them all. Maybe that's true. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but we felt like we needed to do
Speaker 3: something for him. So we're in the process of basically
Speaker 3: just trying to organize almost an obnoxious amount of Hauge's
Speaker 3: nappies to be delivered to worries training basically just a
Speaker 3: way to say thank you, see what we can do
Speaker 3: to maybe just ease the strain at home. Having a
Speaker 3: couple of kids myself, nappies and wipes a commodity, So
Speaker 3: we sort of feel like that just will do our part.
Speaker 1: Am I right and thinking if I got the mets
Speaker 1: right on this, I think the metric was it was
Speaker 1: tackles times meters run plus a fuckload.
Speaker 3: Correct. Now, you know it's not exactly an exact it's
Speaker 3: not an exact science necessarily, but tackles times meters times
Speaker 3: of fuckload is the metric we're going off. So it'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to see how that shakes out after the night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to entirely depend on how many minutes
Speaker 1: he gets and also what.
Speaker 2: Exactly a fuckload is?
Speaker 1: What the I know you got Jacko on from the
Speaker 1: Warriors to help facilitate a little bit of the logistics.
Speaker 1: He mentioned, why don't you just give him the money
Speaker 1: and then he could buy the stuff himself. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the spirit of what you were trying to
Speaker 1: do here. I think it's about obviously as a as
Speaker 1: a good half key to yourself. You know, it's about
Speaker 1: the koha. It's about the gift and the act of
Speaker 1: gift giving. And so I think in that spirit, how
Speaker 1: how far along the road are you with us?
Speaker 2: Do you need a hand?
Speaker 1: We've got a ute. I mean, it's got fuck all
Speaker 1: storage in the back of it. But we've got straps
Speaker 1: and stuff. Do you need someone to pick it up
Speaker 1: at customs and take it to the training facility.
Speaker 3: Honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time. Initially
Speaker 3: we reached out to Huggy you thinking, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: we could help them, help help a good news story,
Speaker 3: get Huggies involved, and they gave us one of a
Speaker 3: great parning offs of all time. As is, they're right,
Speaker 3: But obviously they will come to root the day and
Speaker 3: they see, you know, the success of this gesture. But look,
Speaker 3: if you got it'd be fantastic. We were, we were,
Speaker 3: we were considering flying them over there. Then I thought
Speaker 3: it's probably just easy to buy them on the ground
Speaker 3: in New Zealand. But you're right, Jacko will be getting
Speaker 3: none of our money, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2: Well he's probably going to siphon some off anyway.
Speaker 3: We've just got as a concern.
Speaker 1: We've just had a costco open up here in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's probably the way to go in
Speaker 1: terms of buying in bulk. Don't why don't we take
Speaker 1: our ut It's a nineteen ninety six Ford falcon yute
Speaker 1: sacked out. We have to take it to a dodgy
Speaker 1: workshop to get the regio over here. But why don't
Speaker 1: we take that out to Costco get meters times tackles
Speaker 1: times a fuck load worth of nappies and then drive
Speaker 1: them out to South Auckland and deliver them and deliver
Speaker 1: them to muna mitch from across the ditch when he
Speaker 1: gets back.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a fantastic idea now, where if you
Speaker 3: can give us the details of this, Costco happy to,
Speaker 3: we'll get on the front foot and make the purchase
Speaker 3: for you and then just have it all set up
Speaker 3: so you guys can come and pick it up.
Speaker 1: I think, I think that this is this could be
Speaker 1: fruitful for all involved. If not on the back of
Speaker 1: the yet we also have a caravan where we commentate
Speaker 1: sports out of the back of we could probably you know,
Speaker 1: potentially empty that out fillet with a metric fuck town
Speaker 1: of nappies and what wipes was it?
Speaker 3: Well? Look, I just feel like wet whites are. If
Speaker 3: you're going to be changing nappies, there's a very big change.
Speaker 3: You can be covered in shit, and not just any shit,
Speaker 3: it's new baby shit, which is the most potent of
Speaker 3: all shits. At least from my experience, so you probably
Speaker 3: want to have at least a healthy dose of wipes
Speaker 3: in there as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all right, what here's what I think
Speaker 1: we do. I think we put a pen in this
Speaker 1: and take it offline. We'll see that if we've got
Speaker 1: any connections over the side of the Dutch that could
Speaker 1: potentially help out. You know, we scratch the e bec,
Speaker 1: they scratch our beck, we scratch your beck.
Speaker 2: Sort of situation.
Speaker 1: Love that, and if we can't, then other option as
Speaker 1: we get the Hello's book credit card, run it through
Speaker 1: the wall at Costco and happy.
Speaker 3: Families sounds fantastic. And listen, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: what our next couple of weeks look like. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to commit to it. But if there's a world
Speaker 3: where we may be hop on a flight and get
Speaker 3: over there and deliver them with you, then I'm just
Speaker 3: keeping all options open at this point because I want
Speaker 3: to see mana Mitch from across the ditch Shaddy Navies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we all do, and so anything that
Speaker 1: we can do to help make that happen, We'll just
Speaker 1: keep our eyes up over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: For joining us on the podcast today, Tom, go well,
Speaker 1: enjoy your state of origin football quick prediction for the score.
Speaker 3: Tonight, New South Wales by a fuck load. To be honest,
Speaker 3: Game one we basically wanted a man down. Game two
Speaker 3: it was a fuckload, and then Game three, I'm just
Speaker 3: feeling it. There's a lot of positive vibes in the
Speaker 3: air here in New South Wales and whilst you know
Speaker 3: positive vibes, have you know turned up to be incorrect
Speaker 3: vibes in the past. I'm just I'm feeling it.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll check.
Speaker 1: I know we've got different betting apps across the ditch,
Speaker 1: over your side and outside, but I'll check our betting
Speaker 1: partner and see if they've got a market for New
Speaker 1: South Wales by a fuckload. Enjoy, enjoy the game tonight, mate,
Speaker 1: and we'll be in touched to see if we can't
Speaker 1: get these new match perfect.
Speaker 3: Great to talk with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Well again, a massive thank you to Tom Birmingham for
Speaker 1: coming on the podcast this afternoon. Depending on when you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, enjoy the commentary live on Skysport nine.
Speaker 2: It'll be live from ten o'clock. Die and Ben Hurley.
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Speaker 1: an eye out for another podcast later tomorrow afternoon. Thursday
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